chicating

=Rewatching "Head of The Class" on weekend nights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_the_Class
it must have been on on either friday or Saturday when I was a kid, too, because I watched it staying over at my childhood BFF's house, too. (She had a mom that totally worried about "screen time" and the values we got from TV, etc. I think my mom was happy that we watched that show over, like, nighttime soap opera, and both of our moms would have been totally comfortable having a parent-teacher conference with Howard Hesseman's teacher.
Mom wasn't *especially* worried about what I watched or read, though. If I spent too much on TV, she'd be like, "Surely you have something better to do," Which, as a minor in a wheelchair with no money, was often hard to find pre-internet.
-If I could vaguebook God about last night, I'd say "Universe, that was mean."

Maybe I would have had Jake and Caroline get in a bigger fight at the dance. Maybe in addition to "Plenty of guys would kill to love me,"(which, somebody thinks a lot of herself) Maybe she could be like "The next guy that comes through here, I'll leave with!"

I think I would trade my life for the equivalent in magic beans.
But it felt pretty great yesterday to be tucked up in bed for what could have been read as a double feature of "The Apartment" and "Crossing Delancey" as part of TCM's "Love Stories in New York" last night.

Nothing earth-shattering; just a rare moment where I wouldn't want to be other than me, so I thought I'd log it, if nothing else than as a counterpoint to my endless mental podcast that I could title "My God, I Cheated Death For This?!"(But if anyone was that interested, it might not be like that.You know?)

"And then you said 'why do they call it a check,why not a yugoslavian?"
I laughed, Chandler.

and it made me wonder what it would have been like, in my crossover, if Kay from Homicide had met Angel.
The longer story wouldn't have worked, because she was searching for someone and Cordelia, Wesley, and Gunn needed someone to help, but I found myself picturing a cameo, like this.
KAY(slightly buzzed)
Jesus, kid, the face on you...it's not that serious. Who died?
ANGEL(brooding, natch)
How much time have you got?